New and Eternal Pentecost

Pentecost is the New Creation, the New Reality. It is not a one-time event in the past.

Those who are “cessationist” or “dispensationalist” about the ongoing activity of the Holy Spirit are, to put it simply, in error and are unbiblical.

At the same time, the perennial Pentecost—the Holy Spirit as Christians know and experience Him—is qualitatively different than the “perennial philosophy.” It is not that the Christian experience is merely an instance of “what has always been known” in every cultural and religion. It is that Pentecost is the New Creation, the New Reality, in which God is known as Person, not an unknown divine reality, or product of the evolving human consciousness.